than Palagis think "
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They re “shrewder than Palagis think "
Pago Pago’s weekly Samoa r Times was quick to notice the a discrepancy in two important Ji statements made by Governor H., Rex Lee in discussions with the a local Legislature on his return toe American Samoa in April.
One statement was that “ifi the door was wide open” fori American citizens to enter andb settle in American Samoa, thea Samoan people would “lose thein land, dissipate the money ob—< tained from selling it, and havea nothing”.
The other statement, in effect,,! was that the Samoans were in—i dined to “stifle progress” in thein country because they would noth willingly surrender their land too the • Government for schools,,? roads, etc.
Pointing out that “Samoa must!? be shrewder than palagis (Euro~< peans) think,” the Samoa Timesv added: “With only 76 squarea miles of land in the . . . the chances of replacingg family land after condemnationn are very slim indeed ... It mayy well come out that the Samoam people would rather risk loss ofh progress than loss of their most!? precious possession.”